How
we protect your personal information
We
encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our website or services, responding to
our advertisements and offers, or transacting business with us. By using our website, you are accepting
the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
If
you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for
information on how to contact us. (This Privacy Policy applies only to the www.BeatsMedia.com website and
the services accessed through this website. So, for example, it applies to advertisers and publishers
applying for or using our network through this website, but does not apply to other vendors or
contractors or to our employees.)
THE
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
In
General. We may collect personal information that can identify you such as your name and e-mail address,
as well as other information that does not identify you such as gender and date of birth. When you
provide personal information through our website, the information may be sent to Beats Media servers
located in the United States and other countries around the world.
Information
You Provide. We may collect your username and password and any personal or company information you enter
on our website or provide to us in some other manner. This may include identifying information about you
or your employer or company (such as your name, company name, address, e-mail address, telephone
numbers, fax number, Social Security Number, Employer or Tax Identification Number, driver's license
number, jurisdiction of incorporation, address and/or telephone number), information about your or your
company’s references (such as name and telephone number), information you provide when completing a
survey, and credit or debit card, PayPal or other payment account information, including valid credit
card number, type and expiration date. If you are a Beats Media advertiser or publisher, we also collect
information about advertising or lead generation campaigns you conduct or participate in using our
website or services, such as web traffic and activity information, campaign results and information you
enter into our dashboard or other account interface. We may also track your interaction with email
advertisements sent to you by Beats Media or our e-mail service providers on our behalf (for example, when
you register, purchase, or browse in response to such emails).
List
Information from Vendors. We may obtain information about you after you provide information to a third
party and you permit that party (the "Seller") to share the information, which Beats Media subsequently
purchases, licenses or otherwise lawfully acquires. Such information may include, but is not limited to,
your name, company name, street address, zip code, telephone numbers, birth date, gender, salary range,
education, marital status, occupation, industry of employment, personal and/or online interests, and/or
other information which you provided to the Seller (together, "Vendor List Information"). When acquiring
Vendor List Information, Beats Media requires assurances from the Seller that the Seller has a right to
transfer the Vendor List Information to Beats Media and that Beats Media may lawfully use the Vendor List
Information to transmit offers to you. You may opt out of receiving these offers by using one of the
methods specified in the section below entitled “Your Choices About Collection and Use of Your
information”.
Information
from Other Sources. We may also periodically obtain both personal and non-personal information about you
from business partners, contractors and other third parties, as well as information from public
databases. Examples of information that we may receive include information about your home or company
and additional demographic information.
Information
about Others. We may also collect and store personal information that you provide to us about other
people (such as references), including their name, address, phone number.
Use
of Cookies and Other Technologies to Automatically Collect Information. We and our authorized service
providers, advertising companies, and ad networks may use various activity tracking technologies, such
as cookies, pixels and web beacons, to collect information from your computer and about your activities
on our website or interaction with our advertisements (see "Information Collected by Third Parties"
below). We and these companies may automatically collect information from your browser when you visit
our website. This information may include your IP address, your browser type and language, access times,
the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us or them (see
"Cookies" below) and the referring website address.
Cookies.
When
you visit our website, we may assign your computer one or more cookies, to facilitate access to our
website, to personalize your online experience, and to record information about your visit to our
website. A cookie is a small amount of data stored on the hard drive of your computer that allows your
computer's browser to store your preferences and allows Beats Media, our authorized service providers,
advertising companies and ad networks to identify you by a unique identifier and associate this with
corresponding information in our or their database. Through the use of a cookie, we and these companies
may store your non-personally identifiable registration information and user preferences and may also
automatically collect information about your online activity on our website, such as the web pages you
visit, the links or advertisements you click, or the other actions you conduct while on our website. In
addition, Beats Media may set a cookie on your computer when you view our advertisements delivered on or
in connection with a third-party website you are visiting. After a cookie is set, Beats Media may track
how you interact with the advertisement (for example, registering, purchasing, browsing, etc.). Most
browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline
cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in or use some
of the interactive features offered on our website. We do not tie tracking cookies used for behavioral
or targeted advertising purposes to any personal information you submit while on our site; however,
cookies may be tied to your personal application information solely for purposes of effectuating
transactions you have requested and similar purposes related to the operation of our website (such as
managing our relationships with websites from which you may have been referred to us). They do NOT,
however, collect personal information. Although we may place or allow third parties to place their
cookies when you visit our website (as described more fully in the subsection below entitled “Targeted
or Behavioral Advertising”), we do not have access or control over third party cookies nor does our
privacy policy cover the use of cookies by third parties.
Other
Technologies.
We
may use other standard Internet activity tracking technologies, such as web beacons and similar
technologies, to track your use on our website or your interaction with our advertisements. A web beacon
is a programming code used to display an image on a web page and can also transfer an individual's user
identification to a database and associate the individual with previously acquired information about the
individual. Such information may be used in targeted or behavioral advertising, as well as for the other
uses described in this paragraph. We may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or
newsletters or online advertisements to determine whether messages have been opened or acted upon. We
may use the information we obtain in this manner to customize the services and offers we provide our
website visitors, to deliver targeted advertisements, and to measure the overall effectiveness of our
online advertising, content, programming or other activities. We do not tie web beacons to any personal
information you submit while on our website.
Information
Collected by Third Parties.
Targeted
or Behavioral Advertising
Targeted
advertising (also known as behavioral advertising) uses information collected on an individual's web
browsing behavior such as the pages they have visited or the searches they have made. This information
is then used to select which Beats Media advertisement should be displayed to a particular individual on
websites other than this website. For example, if you have shown a preference for a certain product
while visiting this website site, you may be served an advertisement from or about this site for the
same or a similar product when you visit a site other than the Beats Media site. The information collected
is only linked to an anonymous cookie ID (alphanumeric number); it does not include any information that
could be linked back to a particular person, such as their name, address or credit card number. The
information used for targeted advertising either comes from this website or through third party website
publishers.
In
addition, we may place (or allow third parties to place) cookies and pixels on our website which enable
our authorized service providers, advertising companies and advertising networks to collect information
about our users who view or interact with their or our advertisements on our website or complete certain
actions on our site, such as submitting an application or registration form. However, we do not tie
these cookies and pixels to personal information that you submit on our website. The information
collected by the cookies and pixels allows us and the companies mentioned above to deliver, and gauge
the effectiveness of, targeted advertisements, both on our site and when you are browsing other
websites. Some of these third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks that are members
of the Network Advertising Initiative (www.networkadvertising.org), which offers a single location to
opt out of ad targeting from member companies.
Storage
of Information We Collect
We
may store the personal information described above as necessary to accomplish the business purposes for
which it was collected, as well as to comply with our legal and audit obligations, resolve reported and
potential disputes, and enforce our agreements. For example, we may store information as long as your
account is active; since users’ payment accounts may be charged for recurring fees, we may store your
account information so that you do not have to re-enter this information. However, we do NOT store
highly sensitive information such as Social Security numbers for extended periods of time or any longer
than necessary for authentication and similar requirements and other legitimate business purposes. We
also maintain an information security program that limits storage of personal information to what is
needed to fulfill our reasonable business, legal and audit requirements.
HOW
WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In
general. We may use information that we collect about you to:
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deliver the products and services that you have requested;
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send you offers that you have opted in to receive;
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manage your relationship with us and provide you with customer support;
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perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services or content, or
products, services or content offered by others; - communicate with you by e-mail, postal mail,
telephone and/or mobile devices about products or services that may be of interest to you either from us
or third parties;
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develop and display content and advertising (such as targeted ads) tailored to your interests on our
website and other websites;
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verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with promotions, contests and
sweepstakes;
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enforce our terms and conditions;
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protect Beats Media, our website, our customers and/or our other users from fraud, hacking or other
harm;
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cooperate with legal, criminal or regulatory investigations or proceedings;
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manage our business; and
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perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of information collection.
You
expressly agree that we may call you, including the use of automatic dialer systems to your land line or
mobile telephones, send SMS or MMS messages to you, or contact you by any means described above. You may
opt-out from these types of communications at any time by following the unsubscribe link located at the
bottom of the SMS and MMS messages or by emailing us at privacy@Beats Media.com.
WITH
WHOM WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We
do not share, sell, rent or trade your personal information with third parties other than as disclosed
within this Privacy Policy.
We
want you to understand when and with whom we may share personal or other information we have collected
about you or your activities on our website, while using our services or in your other interactions
(such as responding to e-mails) with us.
Personal
Information. We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated below. Except for
sensitive personal information (such as payment account information, which we only disclose in limited
situations, such as to process a transaction, and which we do not share for marketing purposes without
your affirmative prior consent), we may share all personal information with:
Authorized
Service Providers. We may share your personal information with our authorized service providers that
perform certain services on our behalf. For example, we may engage other companies to handle the
processing of payments, to provide data storage, to assist in marketing Beats Media products or services,
to conduct audits, to provide web analytics, and to provide hosting, design, development and other
operations which make our website work. Other third-party service providers may help us communicate with
you through e-mail, direct mail, SMS or telephone communication. Our policy is to permit these
third-party service providers to obtain only the personal information they need to provide the services,
and to require them to protect personal information to the same extent as Beats Media, including not using
it for any improper purpose.
Business
Partners. When you express interest in products, services or promotions offered through our website or
our services, we may share your expression of interest with the businesses with which we partner to
offer you those products, services and promotions, and, as applicable, their affiliates and third-party
finder or marketing companies. When you elect to engage in a particular offer or program, you authorize
us to provide your e-mail address and other information to those businesses.
Marketers.
From time to time, where permitted by applicable law, we may share your personal information and
automatically collected or aggregated information about you with reputable direct marketers so that they
may offer products and services which we hope will be of interest to you. Please see the section below
entitled “Your Choices About Collection and Use of Your Information” for detailed information on your
choices regarding your personal information.
Affiliates.
We
may share information we collect, including personal information, with other companies affiliated with
Beats Media. Sharing information with such companies enables us to provide you with information about a
variety of products and services that might interest you. These companies will comply with this Privacy
Policy and applicable privacy and security laws and, at a minimum, in any commercial e-mail they send to
you, will give you the opportunity to choose not to receive such e-mail messages from that company in
the future by providing an unsubscribe link at the bottom of each communication.
Special
Notice to Vermont Residents. Beats Media will not share any personal information about you with other
affiliated companies to the extent prohibited by applicable Vermont law or to the extent your prior
consent to share is required by applicable Vermont law.
Other
Situations.
We
also may disclose your information: In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court
order or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or
exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by
law.
When
we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, or to prevent or take
other action regarding, illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the
rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees or others; or to enforce our
website' terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.
In
the event Beats Media goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another
company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, your
personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified
via email or prominent notice on our website for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of
your personal information. Please note that information may also be collected by third parties such as
advertising companies and advertising networks via third-party cookies and pixels on our site (please
see the subsection above entitled “Targeted or Behavioral Advertising” for details).
Any
third parties to whom we may disclose or who may collect personal information may have their own privacy
policies that describe how they use and disclose personal information. Except for companies affiliated
with Beats Media and authorized service providers, who agree to comply with this Privacy Policy with
respect to personal information we share with them, the third parties' privacy policies will govern use,
handling and disclosure of your personal information once we have shared it with those third parties as
described in this Privacy Policy. If you want to learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage
you to visit the websites of those third parties. These entities or their servers may be located either
inside or outside the United States.
Aggregated
and Non-Personal Information. We may share aggregated information (i.e., information about you and other
customers collectively, but not specifically identifiable to you) and other non-personal information we
collect under any of the above circumstances. We may also share it with third parties and affiliated
companies to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our website and on websites of third parties.
We may combine non-personal information we collect with additional non-personal information collected
from other sources. We also may share aggregated information with third parties, including advisors,
advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. For example, we may
tell our advertisers the number of visitors to our website and the most popular features or services
accessed. This information does not contain any personal information and may be used to develop website
content and services that we hope you and other users will find of interest and to target content and
advertising.
Third-Party
Websites. There are a number of places on our website where you may click on a link to access other
websites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy. For example, if you click on an advertisement or
a search result on our website, you may be taken to a website that we do not control. These third-party
websites may independently solicit and collect information, including personal information, from you
and, in some instances, provide us with information about your activities on those websites. We
recommend that you consult the privacy statements of all third-party websites you visit by clicking on
the "privacy" link typically located at the bottom of the webpage you are visiting.
HOW
YOU CAN ACCESS YOUR INFORMATION
General
users of the website can update, correct or delete inaccuracies in your personal information by
contacting privacy@Beats Media.com for assistance. More information about how to contact us is provided
below. We will process your request, where possible and subject to the terms contained in this Privacy
Policy, within a reasonable period of time after receipt. To protect your privacy and security, we will
take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections. We will
respond to your request to access within 30 days. If you are a Beats Media publisher or advertiser, you
may also be able to update, correct or delete inaccuracies in your personal information on file with us
yourself through the dashboards and other account interfaces we provide.
We
will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services.
We may also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal and audit obligations,
resolve reported and potential disputes, process chargebacks, make or collect payments that are owed
with respect to your activities or campaigns, and enforce our agreements. If you wish to cancel your
account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at
privacy@Beats Media.com. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to
be accessed, corrected or removed before processing all such requests, and we may decline to process
requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort,
jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning
information residing on backups), or for which access is not otherwise required. All requests are also
subject to the next section below (“Your Choices About Collection and Use of Your
Information”).
We
also maintain an information security program that limits storage of personal information to what is
needed to fulfill our reasonable business, legal and audit requirements.
YOUR
CHOICES ABOUT COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
You
can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may result in you being unable to use
certain features of our website because such information may be required in order for you to apply for
or obtain products or services.
If
you would like to delete the personal information that we have collected from you, please send your
request via e-mail to privacy@Beats Media.com. We will process your request, where possible and subject to
the terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Policy, within a reasonable period of time after
receipt. However, federal and state regulations and/or the need to administer our relationships with our
ad networks and other third parties may require that we store certain information for various periods of
time. In order to comply with these requirements, we may be unable to delete your information from our
database until the expiration of the applicable period. However, we will use reasonable commercial
efforts to delete your personal information no later than three (3) months after receiving your request,
unless a longer retention period is required by law. Please also be aware that if you request us to
delete your personal information, your request will apply only to information held by us and not to
information we have already shared with third parties; the treatment of such information held by third
parties is governed by those parties’ privacy policies, not by this Privacy Policy. When you initially
sign up or submit information on our website, you will receive e-mail messages or newsletters from us.
You will be given the opportunity, in any commercial e-mail that we send to you, to opt out of receiving
such messages in the future. You may also opt out of receiving commercial e-mails by using the
"unsubscribe" link on our website. It may take up to 10 business days for us to fully process an opt-out
request. We may send you other types of transactional and relationship e-mail communications, such as
requests for additional information, confirmations, service updates or announcements, administrative
notices and surveys, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. Please note that
opting out of receipt of commercial e-mail communications will only affect future activities or
communications from us. If we have already provided your information to a third party before you have
changed your preferences or updated your information, you may have to change your preferences directly
with that third party.
If
you are receiving SMS messages from us, you may opt out from further SMS messages and remove your SMS
information from our database by responding "STOP" to the SMS text message you have
received.
HOW
WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We
take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help
safeguard your personal and sensitive information from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example,
with regard to Beats Media’ internal operations, only authorized employees and authorized third-party
service providers are permitted to access personal information, and they may do so only for permitted
business functions. We use a reputable security service provider to manage our servers on which your
personal information is stored. In addition, personal information you submit to Beats Media through our
website is transmitted through an encrypted SSL (secure socket layer technology) connection, and
Beats Media’ computers and networks have security measures, such as firewalls, to protect against the
loss, misuse and/or alteration of the information under Beats Media’ control.
We
want you to feel confident using our website to transact business. However, no system can be completely
secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should
not expect, that your personal information, searches or other communications will always remain secure.
Users should also take care how they handle and disclose their personal information. Please refer to the
Federal Trade Commission's website (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp) for information about how to protect
yourself against identity theft.
YOUR
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California
Residents. If you are a resident of California, in addition to the rights set forth in this Privacy
Policy, you have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share certain
categories of personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. California
law gives you the right to send us a request at a designated address to receive the following
information: the categories of information we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing
purposes during the preceding calendar year;
the
names and addresses of the third parties that received that information; and if the nature of the third
party's business cannot be determined from their name, examples of the products or services
marketed.
We
may provide this information in a standardized format that is not specific to you. The designated e-mail
address for these requests is privacy@Beats Media.com. Please note that we are only required to respond to
one request per customer each year, and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other
than through this e-mail address or mailing address. Please also be aware that not all information
sharing is covered by the California requirements and only information on covered sharing will be
included in our response.
Children's
Privacy
Our
website are for adults, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age
of 18.
VISITING
OUR WEBSITE FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
This
Privacy Policy is intended to cover collection of information on our website from residents of the
United States. If you are visiting our website from outside the United States, please be aware that your
information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States where our servers are
located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States
and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that we
seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our services, you
understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom
we share it as described in this privacy policy. By using our website and the services available on the
site, which are provided exclusively from the United States, you hereby consent to the transfer of your
information to the United States and its collection, storage, sharing and use as described in this
Privacy Policy. You further agree that all transactions relating to the site and our services shall be
deemed to have occurred in the United States.
NO
RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES
This
Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal
information relating to users of our website.
CHANGES
TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We
will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we
post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of this Privacy
Policy. Accordingly, you should periodically check the “last updated” date at the top of our Privacy
Policy so that you can familiarize yourself with any changes.
HOW
TO CONTACT US
If
you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our information-handling practices, or if you would
like to request information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their
direct marketing purposes, please contact us at privacy@Beats Media.com.